Stephen Rumbold Lushington

Who was Stephen Rumbold Lushington?

Stephen Rumbold Lushington was an English Tory politician and an administrator in India. He was Governor of Madras from 1827 to 1835.

Lushington was born in Godmersham, Kent. He was educated at Rugby School, and was in India from 1792. Initially he was a translator.

In England from 1807, he unsuccessfully contested the borough of Canterbury at the 1807 general election, but in July that year he was elected at an uncontested by-election as a Member of Parliament for the borough of Rye in Sussex. At the 1812 general election he was returned without a contest for Canterbury, and held that seat until the 1830 general election. He was Secretary to the Treasury from 1814 to 1827. He unsuccessfully contested Canterbury again at the 1835 general election, but the result was overturned on petition and he held the seat until he stood down in 1837.